The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Joe Lieberman!

The man who calls himself an "independent Democrat" has proven that he's neither!

You know, once it was clear that the Gore/Lieberman ticket had actually won the 2000 election, I put every effort into making sure this victory stuck (even though I voted for Nader). I even went to that post-election rally up by Cincinnati City Hall (which was crashed by rightists, much like the recent protest against the teen torture center in Milford, but that's another matter entirely). And what do we get in return?

Sources in the Democratic and Republican parties say Lieberman is about to issue his endorsement for President. Which independent or Democrat is this "independent Democrat" endorsing? None! He's endorsing...John McCain. That's right, he's backing a Republican, of all things!

I wouldn't hold it against Lieberman if he supported a Republican who was worth a damn. If John McCain had, say, circulated a petition against school uniforms and introduced a bill requiring a fart to be publicly issued into Mel Martinez's face by an anonymous individual deputized for the occasion, I'd be sitting here cheering the endorsement. But nope!

McCain used to have some credibility. But - as with Colin Powell - the cozier he's gotten with Bush and the Republican establishment, the further outside the realm of the reasonable he's drifted. McCain is the dude who said MoveOn "ought to be thrown out of this country." Later the senator expressed skepticism of the Constitution's ban of religious tests for public offices. Like Lieberman, McCain continues supporting the Iraq War, even as this has been the deadliest year yet of the 5-year conflict.

Funnily enough, because Lieberman has lost all his credibility by taking such an extreme stance in support of a war that most Americans have opposed all along, his endorsement won't help McCain a damn bit. Unapologetic backers of the Iraq War aren't really what voters today have an appetite for.

You're a conservafool, Joe! How does it feel to rank up there with Gary Nodler, Tom DeLay, and the rest of the fucked-in-the-brain crew who got entries during the heyday of the old Conservative Fool Of The Day blog?

(Source: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/lieberman_to_endorse_mccain.php)